Library of Congress Loan Record

[October 26, 1855]

RECEIVED of the Librarian of Congress, the following Books, which I
promise to return, undefaced, to the said Librarian, within the time
hereinafter specified, or to forfeit and pay twice the value thereof; as
also twenty cents per day for each day's detention beyond the limited
time of a Folio Volume; ten cents per day for the detention of a Quarto
Volume; and five cents per day for the detention of an Octavo or smaller
Volume.

WHEN RECEIVED

WHEN RETURNED

OCTAVO, OR SMALLER VOLUME

To be returned in one week

1853 Sept. 19th.

1855. July 13

Metamorphosis of Apuleius

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1854 May 17th

Knox History of Ceylon, 4to.

1854 Feby. 9th.

1854. July 26th.

Confessions of an Opium Eater

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" May 17th.

Diary, &c. of Lord Malmesbury, 4 vols.

" March 30th

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Jesse's London & its Celebrities, 2 vols.

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" July 27

Shakespeare, 1st v. (Mr. Lycett's.)

" Aug. 11

" Septr. 2d

Fercal's Mysts. Of the Inquisition

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Calderon's Works, 1st vol. (Vellum)

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Cumberland's Min. Theatre, v. 14.

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Blessington's Country Quarters, 3 vols.

" Septr. 2d

1855 July 13

Edgeworth's Works, <-1st v-> 2d v.

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Do. 3d & 4th v. Mrs. Davis.

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Do. 9th v.

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Irving's Conquest of Florida.

1855 Sepr. 18

" Octr. 26

Shakspeare & his Friends, 3 vols

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Stand. Novels, 41st. v. Vathek

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" Sept 18th

Hood's Prose & Verse (transferred to next book.

From The Papers of Jefferson Davis, Volume 5, pp. 125-26. Transcribed from the original in the Library of Congress, Receipt Book G, 345 and H, 288.